It’s time for another challenge at Less is More… This time we have a colour challenge: Blue and Silver or Red and Gold. For me, they are classic Christmas colours, so I’ve used that theme for my cards this time around. First up, my choice for my design team card. It’s hard to see with the reflections, but the snowflakes are heat embossed in silver. The watercolour is Chipped Sapphire Distress Stain flooded into water, then splattered with water and blotted dry.

Three other cards for your inspiration:

This small snowflake swirl didn’t show up with enough detail once I’d heat embossed in silver. The main snowflake, of course, coloured once I’d added the background distress stain wash and going in after with a white Posca pen didn’t quite work out either.

This is a quick and simple card – stamp and heat emboss in silver onto pearlescent blue paper. Stick to the card and add a sentiment to finish.

Finally, a red and gold card to complete the colour challenge. This is another quick and simple card – stamp and emboss the noel stamp in gold embossing powder onto red card. I then painted Fired Brick Distress Stain into the letters to darken them. I liked that so much that I cut the noel apart and stuck the pieces down onto the same red card painted with the distress stain to make a dark background.

used to make these cards

• Inkadinkado wood mounted stamp: (snowflake flurry) [95892 . O]
• PSX wood mounted stamp: (mini snowflake flurry) [C-3335] – from 2002!
• Great Impressions wood mounted stamp: (snowflakes) [H128]
• Anita’s wood mounted stamp: Noel
• Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz: Simple Sayings [CMS155]
• Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Chipped Sapphire
• Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Stain: Chipped Sapphire / Fired Brick
• Ranger Archival Ink: Cobalt
• VersaMark watermark stamp pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder: Metallic Silver / Metallic Gold Rich
• Posca Pen (PC1-MR)